Kong Announces Konnect MCP Support to Make AI and Agentic Development Easier, More Secure, and Cost-Effective

New releases include next-generation enterprise MCP gateway solution in Kong's newest AI Gateway, MCP-enabled Developer Portal, and the Volcano SDK for agent development

SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 14, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Kong Inc., a leading developer of cloud API and AI technologies, announced at API Summit 2025, new support to help enterprises adopt and scale MCP and agentic AI development. These innovations include new MCP gateway capabilities in AI Gateway, and MCP-enabled Konnect Developer Portal, designed to provide a unified and secure way to build, run, discover, and govern the MCP-based tools and applications powering today's AI agents.

The launch of these new solutions underscores Kong's commitment to delivering the infrastructure and developer tools enterprises need to securely accelerate the adoption of AI coding assistants, AI workflows, and agentic AI.

"Agentic AI offers tremendous opportunities for enterprises, but realizing that potential requires the right infrastructure. While MCP has emerged as the backbone for agentic workflows, there are real challenges around security, reliability, and performance. With these new product features, we're proactively solving some of the most important infrastructure challenges inherent to the protocol, and helping organizations put advanced AI agents into production faster and more securely," said Marco Palladino, CTO and Co-Founder, Kong Inc.

Kong's MCP governance capabilities in AI Gateway include:

• Consistent MCP server autogeneration and protection: Automatically generate secure MCP servers from Kong-managed APIs to accelerate the time to market of smart and capable AI agents, improving developer productivity when building MCP-enabled workflows across the business.
• Centralized MCP authentication: Users can centrally secure all MCP servers in one place with Kong's dedicated MCP OAuth 2.1 authentication plugin, validating tokens and applying consistent security policies across every server automatically, to unleash the new era of compliant and governed AI agents.
• Stronger MCP observability and governance: Capture data about MCP tools, workflows, and prompts, then analyze it in Kong Konnect dashboards for cost optimization, performance monitoring, and improved governance. This – in addition to the existing LLM analytics capabilities – provides full visibility into all the agentic workflows that developers are building.
• Seamless, MCP-enabled access: Turn Konnect Developer Portals into MCP servers, enabling API discovery and access for AI coding assistants such as Cursor.
• AI Integration Composer: Discover, compose, and map intelligent API endpoints as tools for MCP servers; this marks the beginning of Kong's entrance into AI-based integration.
• AI Integration Runner: Generate and run the code necessary for composed MCP tools, servers, and integrations – all with the security, reliability, and governance ensured by the Kong AI Gateway.

Volcano

Additionally, Kong is introducing Volcano, a new open-source software development kit (SDK) to simplify and accelerate the creation of MCP-powered AI agents. Volcano provides developers with a lightweight, secure framework for building, testing, and deploying agentic applications that integrate seamlessly with APIs, MCP servers, and other AI systems governed through Kong Konnect.

"None of the existing frameworks for AI agent development have delivered on the ease, security, and simplicity that developers need," said Palladino. "Volcano changes that. Combined with the agentic infrastructure that Konnect provides, organizations from builders to Platform teams now have everything they need to start creating advanced AI powered integrations, workflows, and user experiences."

The Volcano SDK will be available as an open source project on GitHub at https://github.com/Kong/volcano-sdk. For more information, visit: https://volcano.dev/

To learn more about Kong's MCP gateway solution in AI Gateway, visit: https://konghq.com/products/kong-ai-gateway

About Kong Inc.

Kong Inc., a leading developer of cloud API and AI technologies, is on a mission to empower companies to become "API-first" to advance and enable the AI era. They help organizations worldwide — from startups to Fortune 500 enterprises — unleash developer productivity, build securely, and accelerate time to market. For more information about Kong, please visit www.konghq.com or follow us on X @Kong.

SOURCE Kong Inc.